Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why do you say it's mostly bots?

[–] Distributed@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ah, stupid that people do stuff like that.

[–] hyorvenn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them

[–] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I also suspect they’re all bots.

I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So far it looks like most of the bots are just signing up - not posting anything.

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The calm before the storm